I taking a wild guess here, but could it be hanging on some artificial
limit?  Is it the 32767th file? 16383rd? 65535th?  If so, it may not be the
file's fault, but an MPEX problem.
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From:   Rudderow, Evan[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, November 27, 1996 4:13 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        MPEX Print;Search Hangs

"Harrington, Don" <[log in to unmask]> wrote

>I have a job in which I am trying to locate a specific text throughout
>the system.

<snip>

>Originally, I used just @[log in to unmask]@.  However, it seemed to hang on a certain
>file, so split it up like this.  It still hanged on the same file in the
AUBMSIS
>account, so I tried removing that file from the list.  Still no luck.  I
tried taking
>the entire AUBMSIS account out of the job.  OK, so now it hangs in the
>AUBMSS account.  Looking in GLANCE shows no activity for the job.
>No PINs; nothing.

Is the file it's hanging on a message file?  If so try "(not ismsg)" in the
fileset specification.

 -- Evan